I was curious if you were going to use the new Digital 77 stereo mix instead of the former analog capture on despecialize 1.0 ?
Sorry to hear about the encoding issue. Bummer :(
What’s the internal temperature of a TaunTaun? Luke warm.
WHOA! It`s a humdinger of a `humdinger`! Sorry this is going to tie up your processor for another week...we gotta have a whip-round and pitch in to buy you a render-machine, Harmy.
Wow, I had no idea there was a 1965 Technicolor Dreamcoat edition. I guess Lucasfilm borrowed Doc Brown's car.
Kidding aside, I'm sorry this happened Harmy. I'm sure it was no laughing matter when you discovered it. I'm sure with your experience, and the help of those qualified here should you need it, it will be resolved post-haste.
Good luck. We're all counting on you.
It’s really sad when the “creative minds” behind something we hold dear are also guilty of its destruction.
:( Yeesh. Couldn't they make this stuff easy?
“I find your lack of faith disturbing.”
Harmy said:
I'm not happy :-/
That sucks, but reminds me of this:
http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/10/pbs-off-book-art-of-glitch-web-documentary/
Kind of cheesy, but interesting.
Keep at it and thanks for all your hard work!
Harmy said:
I'm not happy :-/
That sucks. Keep up the good work, you're almost there!
"Let's face it, the Ewoks sucked, dude" -Hurley, Lost 5x13-Some like it Hoth.
Please bear with me if I tend to get too excited about anything or say too much, I have issues.
Harmy said:
delusions_of_grandeur said:
Not to come across as a complete ass-hat, but Harmy if the stakes were a date with 22 year old Carrie Fisher, when would you bet we'll see a seeded release? Thanks again!
I'd love to be able to say that as soon as I get h_h's audio but here's the reason I'll be re-encoding the whole thing from scratch.
I'm not happy :-/
It's not in my lossless source files, so it must have happened during the encoding.
Oh and I guess I actually will put all the soundtrack in the MKV, if I can put them all together before the release.
Is this one of those Magic Eye pictures? If you hold it really close to your face, and back away slowly while looking cross eyed, you will eventually see GL giving the finger!
Harmy said:
delusions_of_grandeur said:
Not to come across as a complete ass-hat, but Harmy if the stakes were a date with 22 year old Carrie Fisher, when would you bet we'll see a seeded release? Thanks again!
I'd love to be able to say that as soon as I get h_h's audio but here's the reason I'll be re-encoding the whole thing from scratch.
I'm not happy :-/
It's not in my lossless source files, so it must have happened during the encoding.
Oh and I guess I actually will put all the soundtrack in the MKV, if I can put them all together before the release.
Hello this is my first post on this forum,
Sorry to hear that the Encoding is not working right
One day we will have properly restored versions of the Original Unaltered Trilogy (OUT); or 1977, 1980, 1983 Theatrical released versions (Like 4K77,4K80 and 4K83); including Prequels. So that future generations can enjoy these historic films that changed cinema forever.
Yoda: Try not, do or do not, there is no try.
That's an odd-looking error to be sure, but I suppose it's just as well, since I had to go out of town for a bit. Tomorrow I'll be back at it.
To tell the truth, it may be better to use Belbucus' analogue capture of the stereo track. Sure, the quality of the digital version is a bit better, but it also has many of the source flaws that Belbucus fixed for his version, including noticeable audio dropouts and pitch-shifting. In addition, it is also much too loud compared to the 1993 mix (and by consequence the 5.1), while the analogue capture has already been level-matched quite precisely. When I spliced in part of the digital stereo track for one of my edits, it had to be lowered considerably just to have the dialogue come out at the same level. When switching between multiple audio tracks, this is going to produce a jarring mismatch.
Of course, the mono mix is also much too loud compared to the 1993 version, and would have to be similarly lowered. Dialogue Normalization can be used for this purpose with AC3, but for PCM this has to be done manually.
Once I'm done with my stuff, I'll consult on what to do about all the audio tracks, if that would be helpful. I'm not sure how many people really care about this kind of thing, but differences in playback level are a huge source of confusion regarding how powerful or dynamic different mixes sound in relationship to each other, and a lot of erroneous ideas have been formed as a result.
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<p><strong>hairy_hen</strong> said:</p>
<p>That's an odd-looking error to be sure, but I suppose it's just as well, since I had to go out of town for a bit. Tomorrow I'll be back at it.</p>
<p>To tell the truth, it may be better to use Belbucus' analogue capture of the stereo track. Sure, the quality of the digital version is a bit better, but it also has many of the source flaws that Belbucus fixed for his version, including noticeable audio dropouts and pitch-shifting. In addition, it is also much too loud compared to the 1993 mix (and by consequence the 5.1), while the analogue capture has already been level-matched quite precisely. When I spliced in part of the digital stereo track for one of my edits, it had to be lowered considerably just to have the dialogue come out at the same level. When switching between multiple audio tracks, this is going to produce a jarring mismatch.</p>
<p>Of course, the mono mix is also much too loud compared to the 1993 version, and would have to be similarly lowered. Dialogue Normalization can be used for this purpose with AC3, but for PCM this has to be done manually.</p>
<p>Once I'm done with my stuff, I'll consult on what to do about all the audio tracks, if that would be helpful. I'm not sure how many people really care about this kind of thing, but differences in playback level are a huge source of confusion regarding how powerful or dynamic different mixes sound in relationship to each other, and a lot of erroneous ideas have been formed as a result.</p>
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<p>I think most of us care quite a bit.</p>
That would be great if you could offer advice on the audio tracks. Also, I wanted to ask if there's a thread where I could ask some questions about the 97SE DTS audio?
^ http://originaltrilogy.com/FORUM/topic.cfm/Star-Wars-1997-DTS-CD-ROMs/topic/14241/
Harmy said:
...I found a few other things I want to fix anyway (they are the sort of thing that I wouldn't have bothered with if this didn't happen like slight colour inconsistencies and such but this gives me an opportunity to fix them). It will unfortunately mean another delay of the release but I'm still hoping I could be releasing sometime this week.
Any chance you'll be fixing the green-to-red shirt color change that was just found? I know you said you wouldn't stop rendering to fix such a small thing, but now that you have to render again anyway is it something you'd be willing to do? I know it's a small change, but it is a change, it did look better green and it'll stick me in the eye every time now.
I'm not sure if I'll be able to pull it off convincingly (it's basically colourization) but I'll try, yes.
Anyway, part of what I was fixing was this: (new on top, old bottom)
That looks great.
looking for HDTV of the Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith. Also HDTV of The Lord of the Rings trilogy
ray_afraid said:
Any chance you'll be fixing the green-to-red shirt color change that was just found? [...] I know it's a small change, but it is a change, it did look better green and it'll stick me in the eye every time now.
Something you'd never have noticed otherwise is now going to really bother you now unless changed. I know how that is.
No criticism intended, but this is exactly why Harmy begged upthread for people to post complaints, details or ongoing flaws in private PMs only.
In general, the chances of getting something changed at this point are much slighter than the chances of just hurting everyone's enjoyment--much as the shirt knowledge has done for you...
Apologies if I'm overstepping my newbie bounds; again no criticism intended, I know firsthand how details can nag at one.
Let's not make "perfect" the enemy of "amazingly good."
Harmy, I'm really glad you were able to more fully de-specialize those lightsabers. They look much closer to the original shape than v.1. (If I remember right v.1 sabres were color corrected by Adywan, but they still looked like CGI.) I hope they look good in motion! :)
Are those fixes you made Harmy?
Yep:-)
Those new lightsabers look absolutely perfect Harmy! Excellent job too on recolouring the shirt.
You da man!
“It’s a lot of fun… it’s a lot of fun to watch Star Wars.” – Bill Moyers
Looks perfect.
How do you work so fast?
flynn2000 said:
Looks perfect.
How do you work so fast?
(Just a guess :D)
The lightsabers look fantastic. That was the main thing version 1.0 lacked, so I'm glad to see some last-minute improvements.
And that red/green shirt guy is great too.
Harmy,
on the DVD version of Star Wars:DeSpec, the whites while onboard the Blockade Runner seem rather hard and with a bit of a yellowish tint (at least in comparison to GOUT and to Adywan's Revisited)
Are you redoing overall color correction with your newer versions, or are you mostly doing tweaks? I really would love it if you made the whites softer during those scenes.
chyron just put a big Ric pic in your sig and be done with it.
